While the story that unfolds on-screen took place in the 19th century Utah Territory – now Utah state – the show was filmed entirely in New Mexico, 600 miles to the south east.

While Brigham Young (Kim Coates) succeeds in burning down Jim Bridger’s (Shea Whigham) beloved fort, Bridger survives the fire. In real life, Jim Bridger would head east to plea his case to the U.S.

Around the same time, a young Indigenous woman named Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier) flees from her Shoshone tribe after killing ...

Netflix’s American Primeval throws us headfirst into the untamed wilderness of Utah Territory in 1857, a time when the American West was a cauldron of conflict. The series, a visually stunning ...

Producers openly admit the six-part series dropping Thursday is highly fictionalized. It centers around 1857 involving the ...

Netflix‘s new limited series American Primeval gives a startling look at the American West in the mid-1800s, when Native ...

The Western series, starring Taylor Kitsch, is a violent and thrilling portrayal of Utah's Mountain Meadows Massacre.

American Primeval is a sprawling, epic TV series, one that feels both deeply indebted to the Westerns of old and a purposeful rebuke of them. Present still are the genre’s John Ford-esque cloudless ...

Netflix’s savage drama American Primeval joins a long tradition of scalp-happy, gorily violent depictions of the frontier. Here are the best ...

Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars ...

Yes, and no. American Primeval is a work of historic fiction. Meaning, Sara and Isaac’s story is made up, as is the story of ...